Tom Hurd

Thomas Carr Hurd (Whitey)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 155 lb.

Born: May 27, 1924 in Danville, VA
High School: Withrow (Cincinnati, OH)
Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 30, 1954
Team: RedSox 1954-1956

Final Game: September 29, 1956
Died: September 5, 1982 in Waterloo, IA
Cremated
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Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
1946	22	CHW-min	D	122	502	502		117	17	10	0						.233	.233	.307	.540		154						CDL · GAFL
1947	23	CHW-min	B	111	365	365		78	16	3	3						.214	.214	.299	.512		109						FRV,WLO · NENL,IIIL
1948	24	CHW-min	B	95	334	334		74	15	4	2						.222	.222	.308	.530		103						WLO · IIIL
1949	25	CHW-min	B	43	105	105		26	4	1	0						.248	.248	.305	.552		32						WLO · IIIL
1951	27	CHW-min	AA	33	81	81		16	2	0	0						.198	.198	.222	.420		18						MEM · SOUA
1952	28	CHW-min	AA	39	65	65		15	2	0	0						.231	.231	.262	.492		17						MEM · SOUA
1953	29	CHW-min	AA	43	72	72		13	1	0	1						.181	.181	.236	.417		17						MEM · SOUA
1954	30	CHW-min	AAA	34	41	33	1	2	0	0	0	1	0		4	12	.061	.162	.061	.223		2	1	0	4	0		CHL · AA
1954	30	BOS	AL	16	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	123	1	0	0	0	0		1
1955	31	BOS	AL	43	15	14	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.071	.071	.143	.214	-46	2	1	0	1	0	0	1
1956	32	BOS	AL	40	13	12	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	.500	1.000	153	6	0	0	1	0	0	1
1957	33	BOS-min	Opn	29	66	62	7	9	1	1	0	4	0		3	10	.145	.185	.194	.378		12	2	0	1	0		SFR · PCL
1958	34	BOS-min	AAA	52	35	31	3	11	1	0	0	4	0		4	2	.355	.429	.387	.816		12		0	0	0	0	MNE · AA
1959	35	STL-BOS-min	AAA	51	19	18	1	3	0	0	0	2	1		0	7	.167	.167	.167	.333		3		0	1	0	0	ROC,MNE · IL,AA
1960	36	STL-min	AAA	43	9	8	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.375	.444	.625	1.069		5		0	0	0		ROC · IL
3 Seasons				99	32	29	3	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.276	.300	.310	.610	57	9	1	0	2	0	0
162 Game Avg.				162	52	47	5	13	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	8	.276	.300	.310	.610	57	15	2	0	3	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rpos	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	Salary	Pos
1954	30	BOS	AL	4	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	$	1
1955	31	BOS	AL	15	-3	0	1	-2	-0.2	-2	-0.2	$	1
1956	32	BOS	AL	13	1	-1	1	1	0.1	1	0.1	$	1
3 Seasons				32	-2	-1	2	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO
1954	30	BOS	AL	4	2	1	13.4	108	.333	.333	.278	.500	.355	.333	.406	.833	.762	123	.891	0.2	0.0	1.000	.333	.000
1955	31	BOS	AL	15	15	0	0.0	111	.091	.071	.278	.071	.359	.143	.414	.214	.773	-46	.000	-3.0	-0.3	.143	.071	.071
1956	32	BOS	AL	13	7	3	11.5	117	.600	.500	.282	.500	.366	.500	.431	1.000	.797	153	.831	0.9	0.1	1.000	.000	.000
3 Seasons				32	24	4	4.5	113	.333	.276	.280	.300	.362	.310	.420	.610	.782	57	.483	-2.0	-0.2	.455	.069	.034
162 Game Avg.				52	39	7	4.5	113	.333	.276	.280	.300	.362	.310	.420	.610	.782	57	.483	-2.0	-0.2	.455	.069	.034

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1954	30	BOS	AL	4	0.0%	0.0%	25.0%	0.0%	0%	0.00				0.00	75%
1955	31	BOS	AL	15	0.0%	20.0%	0.0%	6.7%	100%		4.7			4.50	73%
1956	32	BOS	AL	13	0.0%	15.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		6.0		12.0	1.50	77%
3 Seasons				32	0.0%	15.6%	3.1%	3.1%	13%	5.00	5.8		29.0	2.00	75%
MLB Averages					2.3%	11.4%	9.5%	6.6%	29%	1.20	7.7	38.9	8.1	0.95	75%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI
1954	30	BOS	AL	0.2	0.0	4	0.0	0.1	-0.1	.86	0.0	-0.0	0.2	0.0	0.94	0.3
1955	31	BOS	AL	-3.0	-0.3	15	-0.3	0.1	-0.4	1.13	-0.2	-0.0	-2.2	-0.2	0.76	-2.7
1956	32	BOS	AL	0.9	0.1	14	0.1	0.2	-0.1	.84	0.1	0.0	1.0	0.1	1.00	1.0
3 Seasons				-1.9	-0.2	33	-0.2	0.4	-0.6	.98	-0.1	-0.1	-1.0	-0.1	0.89	-1.4

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stD	1^stD3	2^ndS	2^ndSH
1954	30	BOS	AL	0	0%	5	0	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0
1955	31	BOS	AL	1	100%	4	0	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0
1956	32	BOS	AL	0	33%	12	1	1	20%	2	2	2	2	1	1
3 Seasons				1	33%	21	1	1	14%	4	4	2	2	1	1

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1954	30	BOS	AL	4	75%	1			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		1	0	0%	1	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
1955	31	BOS	AL	15	13%	1			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	50%	2	1	50%	3	1	33%	4	0	0%	0	0		1	1	100%	0
1956	32	BOS	AL	13	38%	6			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	50%	2	0	0%	2	1	50%	10	1	10%	0	0		1	1	100%	0
3 Seasons				32	31%	8			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	50%	4	1	25%	6	2	33%	15	1	7%	0	0		2	2	100%	0
MLB Averages					49%																			83%			11%			31%			14%			49%			54%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	SH	IBB
1954	30	16	4	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	123	1	0	0
1955	31	59	19	17	1	2	1	0	1	3	.118	.167	.176	.343	-11	3	1	1	0
1956	32	99	32	29	3	8	1	1	1	5	.276	.300	.310	.610	57	9	1	2	0

Neutralized Batting

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1954	30	17	4	3	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	16
1955	31	45	15	15	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	43
1956	32	42	12	12	2	6	1	0	2	.500	.500	.500	1.000	3	40
3 Seasons		104	31	30	2	6	1	1	5	.200	.226	.200	.426	3	99
162 Game Avg.		162	48	47	3	9	2	2	8	.200	.226	.200	.426	5	99

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1919 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

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